Had a week where every fridge compressor I touched was a whirlpool from 2011
Last Tuesday I rolled up to a job and the guy's fridge was making this weird clicking noise. I popped the back panel and sure enough, it was a Whirlpool compressor from 2011 with a bad start relay. That was the third one that week, all the same model year range. Then Thursday I had another call, same noise, same age Whirlpool. The customer said the fridge ran fine until it didn't, which is exactly what the other two said too. I replaced the relay and capacitor on all three and they fired right up, but it got me wondering if there was a bad batch of parts that year. Anyone else seeing a pattern with 2011 era Whirlpool compressors going out the same way?